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Image titled "Railway To Nowhere Land" used be permission of KM Cheng, Hong Kong. Click on photo to see KM's full Flickr photostream. There’s nothing like a little adversity to rid us of the illusions and false concepts we’ve built up in our lives. The challenge of unemployment has been having this effect in my [...]
Image titled “I want my mommy” by anyjazz65 My wife Carol has an amazing affinity for animals of all kinds. Our house is a virtual Noah’s ark of pets, including dogs, cats, birds, fish, and other assorted, furry varmints. Each pet enjoys Carol’s special blend of care and attention. She has a natural ability to [...] I missed last week’s post. I’m in danger of missing this week’s as well. There’s so much to do… When I was laid-off in February, I didn’t anticipate how busy I would be in unemployment. In the last two weeks, I spent a day’s time applying for food stamps and almost two days reapplying for financial [...] This post is dedicated to my friend David. I hope you realize how many friends you have in your “network.” In Praise of Networking Exactly one month to the day now since I was laid-off. I had my first phone interview last week regarding a great local job with a Fortune 500 company. The position looks like [...] It has now been a little over a week since the layoff. 300 people were let go over two days. One of them was my friend Brad, who used to work in the IT Department. The two of us immediately decided to form a support group. I don’t know how I would have gotten through the [...] Image by flattop341. Click on the photo to view more of his photos. Sunday our boy scout troop went ice skating at the local rink in Newark, Ohio. I’m a decent in-line skater, but I hadn’t been on ice skates since I was a teenager. As it turns out, I’m able to ice skate [...] Image titled "Pacific Spirit" by lawmurray Many of the posts to this blog have been inspired by my prayer journal, but I’ve never shared an experience directly out of its pages before now. The following account is taken from my journal entries for Friday, February 20. I started as I do most mornings with my prayer [...] Image by Erika Mugglin It was my birthday last week. I’m 48 years old. Not a major milestone birthday like 50, but it got me thinking: this could be the halfway point in my life. My grandmother celebrated her 95th birthday back in December and she’s still going strong; it’s not unreasonable to think of [...] Image by E. Mugglin It was August of 2006 and we were flying over Illinois in a brand new Boeing 777. I was in a window seat with a view of the port engine that was mounted under the plane’s wing. It was overcast below us, the cloud tops forming a smooth, white carpet as far as [...] I have a confession to make: I’ve always prided myself on my intelligence. I considered my mind to be my greatest asset. I’ve almost always thought my ideas were better than everyone elses’. And contrary to what I wrote in a previous post, I do like to play the role of the expert. I know it [...] |
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